as in changing
to pass from one form, state, or level to another
colored lights that slowly mutate from green to blue and so on across the color spectrum
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Recent Examples of mutating
Among the familiar faces fans will encounter are the heroine, Lucy, the Ghoul, and Maximus, as well as a gaggle of mutating and robotic foes.
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Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
But the form is alive and mutating elsewhere.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Soon, people in the building are dealing with the quickly mutating microorganism that makes bodies explode.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
But the form is alive and mutating elsewhere.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Soon, people in the building are dealing with the quickly mutating microorganism that makes bodies explode.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutating
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Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Other exciting territory in The Grand Finale involved Mary’s changing relationship with the other Crawley women.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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In these musical reality shows contestants of varying backgrounds and experience levels compete to become members of a band.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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By running experiments with varying model sizes and noise-batch ratios, the team established a basic understanding of differential privacy scaling laws, which is a balance between the compute budget, privacy budget, and data budget.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Because in a world where the terrain keeps shifting, following yesterday’s map may be the quickest way to get lost.—
Nirit Cohen,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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But plenty of household media names have been humbled by the shifting habits of digital consumers.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Mutating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutating. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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